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Professor of Anthropology
Professor of sociology
Founder - Longwood Archaeology Field School
EducationDoctorate: University of Georgia (1976)
Master of Arts: University of Connecticut - (Sociology 1968), (Anthropology 1969)
Bachelors: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Jordan has been a professor at Longwood since 1978. He received his bachelors degree in his home state of Pennsylvania before becoming a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps and serving in that capacity for three years. Dr. Jordan received his Master of Arts in Sociology and another Master of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut. His doctoral research took him to Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, and Upper Volta in West Africa. He received his Doctorate in Anthropology in 1976.
Dr. Jordan has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Virginia - with an emphasis on Central Virginia and the Potomac River Valley - Great Britain, Syria and the Kingdom of Jordan. He has also conducted a study of free-ranging chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanzania.
Dr. Jordan founded the Longwood Archaeology Field School on June 1, 1980 with the commencement of fieldwork at 44CM8 - the Anna's Ridge site located in the Cumberland State Forest. Since that time Dr. Jordan has conducted field projects throughout Virginia. Dr. Jordan has received numerous awards and commendations, including being honored by the Senate and House of Delegates of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia in Joint House-Senate Resolution 18 in 1992 for "outstanding services to the citizens of Virginia and to the discipline of archaeology in his teaching and research on the earliest inhabitants of the Commonwealth." Dr. Jordan is a multiple recipient of the Fuqua Award for Excellence in Teaching and he was selected as the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Professor of the Year in 1995 .